Phobic Disorders Predictions June 2016 PSYA4 AQA Psychology

Phobic Disorders Predictions June 2016

Possibly my last set of predictions I’m going to do for this year. Just a disclaimer if you’re a student or teacher of this topic (or others);

These predictions are merely my own thoughts and opinions on what might come up for the Phobic disorders topic in PSYA4 for the June 2016 exams; I always advise learning everything just to be safe and this is what good students always do. Banking on merely my predictions is suicide. I tend to say this every time but even teachers are daft enough to think I advocate merely banking on my predictions (I don’t).

The table above is an overview of the PSYA4 exam paper and outlines what can be asked for the psychopathology section (section A) and the 4 topics you can choose to study – Here were looking at only phobic disorders but all the questions always follow the same style and pattern and only the topic itself varies. In total we have about 5 full essays to learn and a little bit for clinical characteristics of phobic disorders. In short – these are a walk in the park compared to PSYA3.

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My Phobic Disorders Predictions June 2016

So my prediction table is below and it highlights 3 essays I would definitely want to know going in. My June 2016 phobic disorder predictions are as follows:

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So there’s 3 full essays I would prep for the most – obviously learn them all but 3 possibilities are jumping out at me but you have to remember that they can split the questions into 2 or even 3 if they wanted to. My focus would be on these particular essays:

Biological therapies for phobic disorders – This hasn’t made an appearance in 3 exam windows nor was it in the replacement paper. I think this has to be my frontrunner and most expected essay.

Issues surrounding the classification and diagnosis of phobic disorders – This question seems to be really overdue in a lot of the psychopathology topics and it feels like surely AQA can’t ask it across all of them right? Probably not but then again AQA love to throw curveballs recently..Either way I have to follow what this says and it says to me that a full essay on it has never appeared. The last appearance this question made was June 2013. This is my second choice essay I would go in having learn’t.

Clinical characteristics of phobic disorders – It can’t be a full essay and although it appeared in the replacement paper I would expect another small question on this in this exam window. I wasn’t going to include it because the mark value is so low but the table and my gut says it’s going to make another appearance worth a few marks.

The curveball is likely going to be:

Biological explanations of phobic disorders – Technically shouldn’t make an appearance and if it does It would be really harsh as it’s been only 1 exam window since it appeared. My gut say surely AQA can’t ask a question thats been asked 3 times already ? But this niggling feeling at the back of my mind after the Gender topic tells me this is our curveball question if AQA wanted to be awkward.

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